A woman was seriously injured Wednesday when she passed out and fell on an escalator at a Harlem subway station. Brynn Gingras reports. (Published Friday, July 5, 2013)

A woman riding a subway escalator in Manhattan was taken to the hospital with injuries after her hair got caught in the machinery Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

The 32-year-old woman, who had a medical condition, passed out on the escalator at the subway station at 125th Street and Broadway at about 3:30 p.m., the MTA said. Her hair got caught in a moving step, and the escalator continued to drag her body up.

A police officer rushed to turn the machine off as emergency medical technicians worked to free the woman.